Thread:Edward Fraser/@comment-24081662-20141109045750/@comment-24081662-20141109045826

Society: From Engineering to Death.

At the beginning of their lives, the citizens are Engineered in massive life support facilities, grown technologically in chambers made for the purpose by combining and engineering their genes from those of many different people, purposefully made to be superior to normal, biologically birthed humans. Most of these engineered humans are executed before they take their first breath, but those that survive- having been fed extreme electric stimulation, nutrients, and diseases to train their immune systems for years- are then considered individual people and are nevermore executed.



Now that they are free from their engineering facilities, they are slowly integrated into the Academy, the building which they wyl now spend the next twenty-one years of their life, depending on their decisions.



At the academy, they wyl have a large amount of freedom and autonomy, and as long as they complete their studies they can mostly do as they wyl. The schools are not based on a certain amount of time that the students must spend on their studies, but rather they must complete a certain amount of studies for every period of time; if they can show that they understand the subject very quickly, they can be released to the next level very quickly, and spare themselves much time and effort spent on these subjects. The requirements are mostly rather strict, requiring them to learn a large amount every year.



Every person may or may not do jobs and chores for the city, helping to clean up after themselves. While they don't actually have to do these jobs, the more jobs they do the more benefits they get; for instance, they would get more spending money, more things for their room; such as computers and games; and more freedom to explore the city at will.



At 12 years of age, they are able to choose a specialty; to focus their learning on a few subjects. They would still have a basic training in many, many subjects but their specialty would give them extra training in these subjects, to prepare them for whatever job they eventually get. The specialties are Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics, Combat, Science, and Engineering. Engineering also has training for some things such as mining, lumbering, etc.



Alternatively, they could choose to take multiple specialties, giving them more of a burden of work but also improving the spectrum of education. Those that are willing to do this; or who are simply intelligent enough to manage to get through each class with little struggle; would generally have a wider selection of lifestyles in front of them, as well as possibly attracting the attention of the city if they do particularly exceptionally.



At sixteen, they are given a considerably larger amount of freedom. Although they are entitled to stay at the Academy until 21; and are recommended to; they are allowed to become Free Men at this age and can leave at will, although they wyl forfeit certain rights. Alternatively, they could begin training for one of the Elite units of the Cyraelian military. These include the Shadowscales, Shadowfang legionnaires, Warrior patrols, Tower guard, and Scouts. These actually require more education than other subjects and are considered challenging, but are the most elite units of the Cyro-Aldyraxian military.



As well, if they don't choose to become free men or become an elite military unit, they still get more general freedom and choose a particular subject; or subjects; in which they wish to focus. These they wyl train for the rest of their educations, until at 21 they graduate.

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<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Sylfaen;font-size:12.0pt;color:#002060">At this point, all of their abilities, grading scores, and subjects they studied is taken into account and they are given a choice of a large variety of jobs which they might be able to excel at. These are based both on their preferences and their abilities, and if they wish they can reject the offer entirely; however, by doing this they lose all benefits given by the government.

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<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Sylfaen;font-size:12.0pt;color:#002060">Once they get their jobs, they are given a variety of benefits; a certain standard of living is met. They are given a choice of any house at a certain worth or lower, even if said building must be constructed fyrst. the same goes for food, furniture, etc.; As long as they do their job, they are guaranteed a certain standard of life. However, this standard of life varies based on productivity, their rank, and the usefulness of their job. It is a strictly meritocratic system, and they earn promotions, or demotions, based on their shown abilities and productivity. These jobs are overseen by taskmasters who were promoted more towards the top, each taskmaster being given a certain assignment for them to organize their workers to accomplish. These assignments, naturally, are handed out by the government. The products of the peoples labors are then collected, they are given their payment, and then the products of their labors are used as payment for other peoples jobs. As a rule, no more than twenty percent of the populace can be engaged in a government project (as opposed to merely gathering food or distributing resources) unless in a state of crisis (i.e., Nuclear War, Meteoric Bombardment, Supervolcanic Eruption, etc.)

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<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Sylfaen;font-size:12.0pt;color:#002060">If they stop their job immediately, they naturally lose their possessions leased to them as long as they did their job, but do not have to pay rent or anything similar. After a certain point, when their labor is considered to be equivalent of the resources they have been granted, they can keep their possessions even after they leave their job; although then, they wyl no longer get any new resources, such as food, furniture, etc. As well, they are given some kynd of regular paycheck; it is just comparatively small compared to the food and housing provided.

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<p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;font-family:Sylfaen;font-size:12.0pt; color:#002060">Finally, they don't necessarily work for the overarching government. Since each region is ruled by a Territorial Governor, they could quite easily end up working either for one of these regional governments, or possibly they could seek service with one of the Aldyraxian Nobility which have proven their worth in the military and were eventually granted their own plot of land, similarly to how the feudal system worked. Or possibly, they could even attempt this themselves, and take up politics or military careers in an attempt to secure their own territory and governance